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| -rw-r--r-- | include/items.php | 11 |
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diff --git a/include/items.php b/include/items.php index c8dd4ca42..dc08fb3db 100644 --- a/include/items.php +++ b/include/items.php @@ -1078,7 +1078,18 @@ function dfrn_deliver($owner,$contact,$atom, $dissolve = false) { * have a contact record. * $hub = should we find a hub declation in the feed, pass it back to our calling process, who might (or * might not) try and subscribe to it. + * $datedir sorts in reverse order + * $pass - by default ($pass = 0) we cannot guarantee that a parent item has been + * imported prior to its children being seen in the stream unless we are certain + * of how the feed is arranged/ordered. + * With $pass = 1, we only pull parent items out of the stream. + * With $pass = 2, we only pull children (comments/likes). * + * So running this twice, first with pass 1 and then with pass 2 will do the right + * thing regardless of feed ordering. This won't be adequate in a fully-threaded + * model where comments can have sub-threads. That would require some massive sorting + * to get all the feed items into a mostly linear ordering, and might still require + * recursion. */ function consume_feed($xml,$importer,&$contact, &$hub, $datedir = 0, $pass = 0) { |